Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2012 schrieb Axel Beckert: > Hi, > > Frank Terbeck wrote: > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > auto completion stopped worked since this week. This might be related > > > to an upgrade of Z-Shell. It is related configuration, with an empty > > > .zshrc it works. But with the recommended configuration from the > > > system administrator it does not. > > > > > > I found it to stop working after compinit. With empty configuration: > > > > > > mango% cd Infrastruktur/ [aborted with Ctrl-C] > > > mango% autoload -Uz compinit > > > mango% cd Infrastruktur/ [aborted with Ctrl-C] […] > > > mango% compinit > > > mango% cd In > > > > > > No reaction on tab anymore. […] > > > But this only happens for *one* user that uses a home directory on NFS. > > > > If NFS is in play it could also be bad performance with certain options. > > Does the shell hang or does completion just take a very very long time? > > As in "minutes"? > > I ran into this too, after I bumped my zshrc to the newest grml zshrc > on Debian Stable with NFS home and about 5000 users in NIS. So I'm not > sure if it has the same reason, but it definitely has the same > symptoms. > > I'd say 5 to 10 minutes or so. Ctrl-C doesn't help. Just waiting. The > zsh process is in the "uninterruptable sleep" state (aka "D" aka "disk > waiting").
No D state here at all: ms@mango:~> ps aux | grep 8220 | grep -v grep ms 8220 0.0 0.0 5760 2568 pts/13 Ss 09:37 0:00 /usr/bin/zsh I checked it while pressing tab with ms@mango:~> watch -n 0,1 "ps aux | grep 8220 | grep -v grep" in a different window. > It doesn't seem to happen with all kinds of completion but at least > with scp completion. I always happens with the LDAP user, even on non-NFS: ms@mango:/etc> cd netw [… aborted by Ctrl-C …] > > My *guess* is that something triggers user-name lookups which may take a > > very long time with a lot of users in networked environments. But like I > > said, it's a guess for now... > > I think the direction is the right one... We don't have a lot of users, maybe 50 at most. Ciao, -- Martin Steigerwald - teamix GmbH - http://www.teamix.de gpg: 19E3 8D42 896F D004 08AC A0CA 1E10 C593 0399 AE90 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org